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Most popular songs in BBC Radio 3 playlist

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Four Characteristic Waltzes (Valse de la reine)

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Joby Talbot - Transit of Venus

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Elizabeth Poston - Jesus Christ the apple tree

2023-09-26

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Hannah Peel - Sunrise through the Dusty Nebula

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Frédéric Chopin - Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Fundamenta ejus - motet for 4 voices

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Flute Sonata in G major, Wq.133/H.564 'Hamburger Sonata'

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Fritz Kreisler - Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - String Serenade Op.48 (2nd mvt)

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Gertrude van den Bergh - Rondeau, Op 3

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Anton Bruckner - Symphony No 8 in C Minor

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George Frideric Handel - Eternal source of light divine (Birthday Ode for Queen Anne)

2019-10-11

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Isaac Albéniz - Sevilla (Suite Española)

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Johann Strauss II - Pizzicato-Polka

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Max Bruch - Kol nidrei Op.47

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Imants Zemzaris - The Light springs

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Paul Dukas - Villanelle for horn and orchestra

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Richard Strauss - Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op 18

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Isaac Albéniz - Catalunya; Sevilla - from Suite Espanola No 1

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Stanislaw Moniuszko - Ballet Music for the Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai

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Edward Elgar - Enigma Variations, Op 36 (Variation 9, 'Nimrod')

2020-01-10

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Ester Mägi - Bucolic

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Hector Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique Op.14 (Un Bal)

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Romance, Op 39

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Felix Mendelssohn - The Hebrides Op.26

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Alexander Borodin - String Quartet no. 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

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Maurice Ravel - Piano Trio in A minor

2025-03-20

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Bedrich Smetana - Vltava (Ma Vlast)

1994-08-05

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Cécile Chaminade - Trio No.1 in G minor (3rd mvt)

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Franz Schubert - 3 Songs: 'Liebesbotschaft', 'Heidenroslein' and 'Litanei auf das Fest'

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV.645

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Sicut Cervus

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Frédéric Chopin - Study in G flat major, Op 25 No 9 (Butterfly)

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Magnificat in E flat major BWV.243a (Magnificat anima mea)

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Claude Debussy - Rêverie

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Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria in D major, RV.589

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Rondo for horn and orchestra in E flat, K 371

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Sheep may safely graze (Cantata BWV.208)

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Robert Schumann - Kinderszenen

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Francis Poulenc - Sonata for violin and piano

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Ennio Morricone - Gabriel's Oboe (The Mission)

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Dance of the Tumblers (Snow Maiden Suite)

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Maddalena Laura Sirmen - String Quartet no.2 in B flat major (2nd mvt)

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Manuel de Falla - The Miller's Dance (The Three-Cornered Hat)

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Francis Poulenc - Flute Sonata (1st mvt)

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George Frideric Handel - Sinfonia, 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' (Solomon)

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings, Op 48 (2nd mvt)

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Grażyna Bacewicz - Suite for chamber orchestra

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Thomas Campion - Never weather-beaten sail

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Alonso Lobo - Versa Est In Luctum

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Classic music radio

WQXR 105.9 FM

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78%

an hour ago: Lars-Erik Larsson - Little Serenade, Op. 12

ABC Classic FM

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98%

2 hours ago: Guylaine Girard (soprano) Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra Julien Dran (tenor) Hungarian National Choir - La Belle au bois dormant, Act IV: "Mes amis, voici votre Reine !"